Antimicrobial prescribing practices at a tertiary-care center in patients diagnosed with COVID-19 across the continuum of care

In a single-center review of antibiotic prescribing in COVID-19 patients, 10% of patients received antimicrobials, and inpatients encounters had the highest rate and spectrum of prescribing. Prescribing rate, spectrum, and duration appeared to increase with disease severity in inpatients. Antimicrob...

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Autores principales: Stevens, Ryan W., Jensen, Kelsey, O’Horo, John C., Shah, Aditya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2020
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Concise Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32703323
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.370
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description In a single-center review of antibiotic prescribing in COVID-19 patients, 10% of patients received antimicrobials, and inpatients encounters had the highest rate and spectrum of prescribing. Prescribing rate, spectrum, and duration appeared to increase with disease severity in inpatients. Antimicrobial prescribing in patients managed in ambulatory encounters was less common.
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spelling pubmed-74179782020-08-11 Antimicrobial prescribing practices at a tertiary-care center in patients diagnosed with COVID-19 across the continuum of care Stevens, Ryan W. Jensen, Kelsey O’Horo, John C. Shah, Aditya Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol Concise Communication In a single-center review of antibiotic prescribing in COVID-19 patients, 10% of patients received antimicrobials, and inpatients encounters had the highest rate and spectrum of prescribing. Prescribing rate, spectrum, and duration appeared to increase with disease severity in inpatients. Antimicrobial prescribing in patients managed in ambulatory encounters was less common. Cambridge University Press 2020-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7417978/ /pubmed/32703323 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.370 Text en © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Antimicrobial prescribing practices at a tertiary-care center in patients diagnosed with COVID-19 across the continuum of care
title_full Antimicrobial prescribing practices at a tertiary-care center in patients diagnosed with COVID-19 across the continuum of care
title_fullStr Antimicrobial prescribing practices at a tertiary-care center in patients diagnosed with COVID-19 across the continuum of care
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title_short Antimicrobial prescribing practices at a tertiary-care center in patients diagnosed with COVID-19 across the continuum of care
title_sort antimicrobial prescribing practices at a tertiary-care center in patients diagnosed with covid-19 across the continuum of care
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7417978/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.370
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